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Sometimes
in life, there comes a point where going gets tough and we seem hemmed in by
hurdles…Come on, let it be a plain talk without philosophical overtones! Forget
life, but it’s a traffic situation on chaotic Indian roads and a little more
often in Pune!! Traffic situations are so very precarious that ‘going gets
tough’ could be an understatement. Traffic comes to a standstill. You are
clueless whether the signals are functional or cops are manning traffic. In
short, no relief in sight and no signs of reaching the destination… It’s
tough to stay composed during such moments. Each of us is most likely to have
encountered traffic snarls. But they are not always negative. My experience is
positive at times… When the
traffic is halted and there are no chances of it moving, there appears a small
gap allowing your bike to pass through. The ‘small’ gap slowly but steadily
takes you much farther than you could ever imagine and makes you cross the
green signal! On noticing this, I started lo…

“I am not such a bad person but don’t know what went
wrong that particular moment…” Has that feeling ever hurt you? It happens with
many of us many times. Leave aside what kind of a person we are; it goes
without saying that others decide our goodness or badness! What triggers at that particular moment
decides our personality trait. Period. The other day, while reading a counsellor column in a
newspaper, I stumbled upon a sentence of a ‘devastated’ girlfriend saying her
boyfriend who abused her all the time and drove her to a frustrated state of
mind. She admitted that she said a thing or two about him in a fit of rage. What
hurt her the most was the feeling that ‘she was never such a bad person’.
However, the counsellor pointed it out rightly that the abusive relationship brought
the worst out of her. Though it’s up to us to react to situations and people
irrespective of circumstances, the nature of a person we are dealing with has some
bearing on it and vice versa. Inter-personal rel…

I have been working with The Times of India for couple of years writing in–depth articles on varied subjects. Though it’s all occupied with news, life has so much happening beyond and above the news. Yeah, I have not seen too many summers but most certainly tried my best to tan it out in the fewer ones I have experienced. I am here because I fundamentally like to speak to people and also to hear them out. And why restrict ourselves to flippant talks when we can have more serious and sensible conversations? It can’t be sweet nothings when we think and analyse a little more, we know it’s much more difficult. It’s an open book where we can divulge everything that seems intricate in simpler and uncomplicated terms. Let’s collect beautiful pearls from the vast ocean and we know, we have so much to explore because it’s vast, deep and expansive. And pearls are precious because each of them comes straight from our heart and enriches our lives.